Abstract
The social origins of laughter in homo sapiens, joking relationships and comic roles in both primitive and modern societies and reference group humour are all important to the psychiatrist in understanding the part played by humour in the social context presented by differing ethnic and social groups of patients. The use of humour by the medical profession, and particularly by the psychiatrist, is considered.
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